But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
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Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
2 Chronicles
HistoryAnd will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Luke
GospelsFor, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsIf I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Job
WisdomAnd they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
Mark
GospelsHe shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahEven the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Numbers
LawFor the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Genesis
Law / MosesThen Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Joshua
HistoryWill he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Job
Wisdom / JobThen beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy
LawFor I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahSurely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Job
WisdomDrought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
Job
WisdomThis shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahI am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
Deuteronomy
LawThese are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Mark
GospelsAnd Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraWe have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: